SUPERELVIS LIVE

You may also have heard of some "different" shows, with strange line-ups
and different instruments. Everybody knows Anki Toner can't really play
(in fact, he can't sing, either, but he has made quite a career) but not
everybody knows that the other guys can play almost every instrument they
can get. The problem is, sometimes, to get the instruments.

The standard Superelvis concert until 1998 featured Anki Toner on vocals
and harmonica, Meteo Giráldez on guitar, Raimon Aymerich on piano
and Alfredo Costa Monteiro on accordion. Sometimes the band presented an
extended line-up with the addition of Mark Cunningham on trumpet, Jakob
Draminsky Højmark on bass clarinet and/or Markuss Breuss on trumpet.

Sometimes we had, though it was not usual, a second guitar player, who
could be Anton Ignorant, but also David Rodriguez (Beef) or Marc Saura
(Mondo Fumatore).

Nevertheless, when we felt like it, we tried to have all the musicians
on the same instrument (if we can find three of them). So we have given
concerts for three pianos (Meteo, Raimon and Alfredo, of course; Anki kept
singing), three guitars, and even three accordions. We never gave
a concert for three electric basses but we would probably had if we had
been able to find two additional basses.

We have also played with analog monophonic synthesizers (we love the
Korg MS series), with various sets of percussion and drums, with viola...
We accept commissions if you provide the instruments.

Our most important work on that field is "Saturday Night", a 50-minute
suite for two pianos (Alfredo was not in the band yet) and vocals, based
on Whigfield's homonim disco hit, which was premiered in Barcelona and
Madrid in 1995. We have never recorded it. We will probably rescore it
for three pianos someday. Another important long work is the Paraíso
suite, written for the BAM festival, 1997.

If you never saw Superelvis live with Anki Toner, the closest you can
get is HAVING FUN ON STAGE, a live recording
of one of the shows of our 1995 tour.

Of course, after Anki Toner's departure in 1998, some things have changed.
You can hear what we mean in the PORTO 18.3.2000
CD